Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes my blood boil to have our Government tax honest French girls to pay the debts of France to these stubborn Americans. . . . I urge that France be credited on her debt with three francs each time an American gets drunk in Paris. Then it will soon be that the United States will owe money to France...
...ever seen a god on earth or even dared to dream of seeing one! Yet this is just what we have experienced. . . . Foch, the victor, went about Paris in uniform almost unnoticed; when Hindenburg, the vanquished, rode out, millions drunk with adoration were ready to strain their muscles to draw his carriage through the streets...
When she allegedly divorced him in 1923: "My friends tell me that Sergei has been in jail for anti-Jewish utterances, but even in jail he contrived to remain permanently drunk. ... I experienced the greatest difficulty in trying to get a divorce, because the Soviet Divorce Commissariat closed every day at noon. ... It was impossible to get Sergei to arise and accompany me at such an hour. ... If the Commissariat had been open at midnight, he would have gone willingly...
...himself when in his cups. And though Mr. Nathan may have had more psychological training above Cayuga's waters than did Horace above the Fountain of Bandusia, he knows little more of men. A liar is nearly always a liar. But he is only more obviously a liar when drunk. And when Mr. Nathan disputes the axiom of his elder he is missing this point. But then one cannot expect an eclectic critic to realize every point when there are so many pages to write and so many schnitzels...
Peter orders the provinces to send their prettiest girls to Moscow. He picks a wife, and everyone gets drunk...